NHL suspends Kaleta five games for cheapshot on Richards

NEW YORK (March 4, 2013) – Buffalo Sabres forward Patrick Kaleta has
been suspended for five games, without pay, for boarding New York Rangers
forward Brad Richards during NHL Game No. 317 in New York on Sunday, March
3, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced
today.

Kaleta is considered a repeat offender under the terms of the
Collective Bargaining Agreement. Based on his average annual salary, he
will forfeit $76,219.25. The money goes to the Players’ Emergency
Assistance Fund.

The incident occurred at 3:28 of the third period. Kaleta was
assessed a major penalty for checking from behind and game misconduct.

For a full explanation of the Department of Player Safety’s decision,
complete with video, please click here.

I was watching the game with Papa Bear Jr. last night. He said the last time he saw someone writhing in pain like Richards on the ice was when I was passing a kidney stone 2 years ago. …….kidney Stone = Man-birth.

When I was twenty and watching football on TV with the old man and uncles, they would holler and cringe at some of the hits, and I would say, ‘what’s the big deal?’ Now I know what they were talking about. Age humps on us.

schmuck milbury was still downplaying the kaleta hit
as if Brad was tossing himself into the boards
he backtracked slightly by saying Brad was vulnerable
at leat
keith jones was having none of it
saying that kaleta should know better

So, in looking at the standings, as the sleeping giant in 9th place is beginning to slowly wake up, it would be recommended to the other teams to keep winning and look ahead, not behind at the locomotive that is beginning to pick up speed. Indeed, the Flyers, in 8th, have 3 games at hand, the Debbies have 1 and Ottowa 2, Toronto 3. In essence, a couple of wins and we’re right back in the thick of the mix.

Kaleta spelled backwards is Dogsheet. Weird.
Sabres fans still whining about Danny G’s hit on Ennis. Really? Ennis turned into the boards, and he’s 5 foot nothing. If he stayed parallel to th boards it would have been shoulder to… Well I guess shoulder to face cuz he’s a dwarf!

In all fairness to Boyle , When Gaborik had the puck he passed it to Boyle for the give-in go . Boyle made a great attempt to get it back to Gaborik but the puck got poked away from Gaborik. If that puck didn’t get reflected it was a BEUTIFUL pass from Boyle to Gaborik. In the locker room only they know ( and I ) that they made the right play , they practiced it…

I read a book about Mantle, Martin and Ford. Mantle said the Yankes finally got rid of Martin because they thought he was a bad influence, but Mickey said Whitey was the instigator, and Martin was just along for the ride. Who knew? A lot like e.cubed, that Whitey, wot?

Also today, the Rangers they’ve signed free agent forward Josh Nicholls, 20, the Maple Leafs seventh-round pick in 2010 who is playing for Saskatoon (Western Hockey League). The 6-foot-2, 186-pound Nicholls has 41 goals and 32 assists in 65 games for the Blades this season.

I went to a game in the 80’s. the Rangers got trounced. After the game we went up to a place i think Flannigans on the upper east side. About an hour later, Leetch, Patrick and MacIver walk into the bar and are laughing, drinking and whooping it up with a couple of fine looking women ( I think Leetch may have married one of the girls). Some of my friends (co-workers) were incredulous at how they could have such a good time after a loss.

Hey I love Prust as much as anybody else n glad he got big-money from the Habs. We shouldn’t have paid that much, bit he really did make Boyle play better, but what is everybody talkin about with him n Lucci he got pounded into the ground… Geez he ain’t a deterrent

The people on the ice who are willing to take a couple to land few bother everyone on the opposition. It’s not just winning, it’s attitude and determination. And knowing that the next shift he gets, no matter what, he’s ready to do it again, win, lose, or draw That’s Prust, for one.

Funny story about Dave DeBusschere in the bar one night, Papa, after his playing days. I’ll tell you later if we’re both still here. Nothing that can’t be said here, but I don’t want to discourage other posters.

Professor Roy Hinkley: Well, that glue is permanent! There’s nothing on the island to dissolve it. Well, do you know what it would take? It would take a polyester derivative of an organic hydroxide molecule.

Thurston Howell III: Watch your language! You’re in the presence of a lady!

Wick it doesn’t have to be either or but guys that can do both are EXTREMELY rare. Young Iginla and Lecavalier? Reaching a bit for examples? And if it’s between a guy who can fight or a guy who can hit, I take the hitter 99/100.

Papa took some time off. e3 returns at 11: ish. Can’t get over that lazy slug who complained about information on Kaleta’s suspension. It was discussed by everyone in detail and is readily available. sheesh.

You got a problem, coos? I do not take lightly to being called Bobby Clarke. I have this whole other thing going on, called a wife and kids and work (“life”). I pop in here constantly and read and post when I think there is a salient point to be made. But I more often just read. And by the way who would then be Schultz? Ya bonehead.

I know its a compliment you bonehead I am around here all the time. I was joking. Except about the Bobby Clarke thing. Back in the 70’s the Rangers program was GOAL magazine, and on the cover was someone from that day’s opposing team. My first game was in 1973, I think, and Clarke was on the cover with that toothless grin. Rangers won that game 2-1 but since thenthe sight of those orange creamsicles coming over the boards makes me physically ill.

Taking my 5 year-old tomorrow night but it wont be his first game. But he not surprisingly has the same creamsicle aversion.

Coos, how bout the goalies from yesteryear? No masks, flimsily equipment. They’d were sitting ducks. But, the men who played the game back then had honor and respect…..Didn’t shoot for the goalies head.

Equipment has something to do with it. Look at JD’s gear sometime – much smaller. Also thought he skill levels of all the players has increased dramatically over the last 30 years.

I think the reason we have injuries and so many more of them has to do with a combo of things. The NHL first decides not to allow the players to police themselves by adding in the instigator penalty. Used to be if you looked at Gretzky funny you got beaten up by Semenko. Now a piece of trash like Kaleta does what he does and nobody wants to risk the instigator penalty. IN the past he would not have done that because he would have had to answer for it big time, and if he were thrown out his teammates would. And the other half of it is that the NHL has taken over the authority to punish these acts but they refuse to do so in any meaningful way. So the league wont let the players police themselves and yet refuses to set limits in a way they need to be set. So bottom line= no consequences for most actions. Which results in more bad incidents.,

I know! Stinkbugs. Where in hell did they come from all of a sudden. Last year was the first I encountered them and they seem to be able to get in no matter what you do. No other insects in here, but they get in!

Who could forget the days when some booze-addled dopes wearing suits would do something stupid, like try to start the wave, or leave with 8:00 to go in a tie game and the RED SEATS SUCK chant would rain down? Those were the days. The “Beat your wife Potvin, beat your wife” chant. One playoff season, the Rangers were playing the Flyers and that goof Brad Marsh was playing for the Flyers. In the days of major hair flow, he hits the ice for warm ups with a buzz cut and the crowd starts chanting “Who does your hair?” The Flyers players are laughing so hard they can barely skate. Refs took a beating from the Garden crowd too. The “you……….you………..you………f*** you” chant was a classic. We won’t be seeing those fun days anymore. Most of the stuff we used to do will get you thrown out by Dolan’s storm troopers nowadays.

Bailey’s. Vince Lombardi was having problems enforcing curfew and he told the team the next misadventure would cost the guilty party 5 big ones. He then said, anyone who has that kind of cash to blow, I’ll give you my phone # and I’ll join you.

I’m presently reading DeLillo, Barthes, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Maupassant, Golf’s Greatest Rivalry, The Sonnets of Michelangelo, and Faulkner, all on my bedstand. When I get up to the Scarsdale library, I will stack McTeague on top.

I used to be able to go days without sleep….. Many nights up till 4am up at 7am…. But at some point need 18 hours of nap time to get caught up….. not so much anymore….but I typically only get 6 hrs max

What is this crap with poetry and real estate tours? I log on here to find out if Hagelin got an assist and I have to slog through all of this nitwit nonsense? When I want to know something about who scored at 1 AM, I expect to be able to find out immediately! Drop dead, all a yiz!

Yes, diagraming sentence structure is mathematical…. In fact, the same way you massage language, you massage equations….. Of course writing proofs is all about words, definitions, postulates, corollaries, theorems,,,,,,

this nutjob walked into my friends post office one day, said he was a wordsmith and he needed to make a business card with his occupation as wordsmith. so he came in a week later with a business card, michael john silverman, wordsmith. he was going on about a post office conspiracy to steal mail. so i told him i knew of it, and that only massachusetts post offices steal mail, lol

I used to live in a ritzy neighborhood before my ex wife took the house, and we had a wealthy neighbor who owned diners and had a huuuuge mediterranean with a large pool and he invited everyone over for a swim brunch. He had a sign at poolside that said, “We don’t swim in your toilet, don’t piss in our pool.” Needless to say, the investment bankers and corporate lawyers found him to be undistinguished and never returned. True

I can comiserate with anyone who underwent the agony of passing a kidney stone. Never happened to me thank God, but I recall years ago
Gordy Howe describing one that he went thru, and he said that the pain was so dreadful that he actually cried.